You will experience stages in
your life.
You begin as a single cell
and grow
until you are born
as a small infant.
You continue to grow
through the lifecycle
for as long as you survive:
childhood,
adolescence,
young adulthood,
adulthood,
maturity,
supermaturity,
elderhood,
and frailty.
You may not live through all of the available stages.
Each segment contains
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
growth experiences
unique to itself.
Stages may end and begin
suddenly,
or segué into one another
gradually.
As you conclude a stage you may feel relief
or remorse
that it is over.
Once you move through a stage,
it is over;
you cannot go back.